At the end of his explanation of the revision and expansion to the paperback version I own, Franzen explains that the connection of the essays is the collection’s title: He covers dementia and Alzheimer’s, the Chicago US Postal Service, privacy, sex books, smoking and the tobacco industry, super max prisons, and several other essays that examine different slices or memories of Franzen’s life–including the Oprah incident over The corrections when he turned down letting her use it for her book club (he remedied that by giving her Freedom for her book club instead). The overarching theme for all the essays is that they were published by Franzen. Actually, it is a collection of his published essays through 2002.
How to be alone by Jonathan Franzen isn’t as lonely or instructive as the title sounds.
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